1. INSTALLATION

0. Before installation, make sure that Cache(System > Cache Management) / Compilation(System > Tools > Compilation) is disabled.1. After the purchase of the extension, you can immediately download the extension from www.magepsycho.com > My Account > My Downloadable Products.2. Unzipping it, you will get ‘app’ & ‘var’ folders and ReadMe.txt file. Upload the ‘app’ & ‘var’ folder to the root of your Magento installation.Note that upload of ‘var’ folder is optional as it contains some sample csv files only.4. Installation is done!5. After installation, you can enable the Cache / Compilation if required.

2. CONFIGURATION

After installation, login to the admin. If you get 404 error page in the extension page then try to logout and re-login. You will now see the top level menu called ‘Mass Importer Pro’ in the admin:

Mass Importer Pro Menu

Extension Activation

0. Go to ‘Mass Importer Pro’ > ‘Price Importer’ menu, you will see the following form (with disabled ‘Run Import’ button) which means you need to enable the extension and activate it with provided license key.

Disabled Run Import Button

1. Go to ‘Mass Importer Pro’ > ‘Manage Settings’ menu, you will see the following section for configuration:

Configuration Section for Mass Importer Pro: Price Importer

And configure as:[General Settings] Enabled = Yes Domain Type = Production / Development License Key = [will be provided in the email shortly after the purchase of the extension]

3. IMPORTING PRICES

After the extension gets installed and configured properly, you should be able to import prices using csv file. Before importing, you need to know the supported csv fields and valid data format required for the extension.

Preparing CSV Fields You can refer to the [Sample CSV File] in order to find all the supported fields, which are: “sku”,”store_id”,”cost”,”price”,”special_price”,”special_from_date”,”special_to_date”,”website_id”,”tier_price:_all_”,”tier_price:Wholesale”,”tier_price:[Any-Customer-Group]”,”group_price:Wholesale”,”group_price:[Any-Customer-Group]”

Field

Description

sku

SKU of the product

store_id

Store Id which can be found in ‘core_store’ table with ‘store_id’ field, If you want to update for all stores then simply use store_id = 0

cost

Cost

price

Regular/Unit Price

special_price

Special Price, If ‘special_from_date’ & ‘special_to_date’ fields are left empty then price is special for unlimited time period

special_from_date

Special From Date, Date field should be in [YYYY-mm-dd] format. For example: 2012-06-15

special_to_date

Special To Date, Date field should be in [YYYY-mm-dd] format. For example: 2012-08-25

website_id

Website Id, Used for Website wise tier / group pricing import.

tier_price:_all_

Tier price for all groups, Values for tier_price should be in tierQty:tierPrice format separated by semi-colon(;). For example: 10:100;20:90;50:70If you want to delete the tier price then you can mark it with value ‘x’. For example: 10:x;20:x;50:70

tier_price:[CustomerGroupName]

If you want tier price for specific groups then you need to add new column in the csv with name = tier_price:[CustomerGroupName] For example: tier_price:Wholesale if customer group is Wholesale, tier_price:Retailer if customer group is Retailer. You can find the customer group name from backend: Customers > Customer Groups. Values should be in same format as above field(tier_price:_all_).

group_price:[CustomerGroupName]

Group Price is new feature available in Magento since 1.7.0.0 version. If you want customer group wise price then you need to add new column in the csv with name = group_price:[CustomerGroupName] For example: group_price:Wholesale if customer group is Wholesale, group_price:Retailer if customer group is Retailer. Field value should contain the price only.

Among above fields, only sku is the compulsory field. You can use the other fields depending on your requirement. You can either leave the column value empty or remove the column itself if you don’t want to update that field.

EDIT Mass Importer Pro: Price Importer (version > 1.1.0) now supports price export feature in CSV format which reduces the complexity of manual process of CSV fields preparation. Now you can easily export the required price types of the selected products using this extension. Refer the following snapshot for more:

Mass Importer Pro: Export Price Feature

Note: Currently Price Importer supports only the CSV file type, using a comma (,) as delimiter and double quotes(“) as enclosure. We recommend you to use OpenOffice tool for formatting CSV file.

When CSV file is ready, go to ‘Mass Importer Pro’ > ‘Price Updater’ menu and go ahead for importing with the following three steps:1. Selecting CSV File: Select the required CSV file from ‘Select File To Import’ dropdown. If required csv file is not in the dropdown list then you can either manually upload via FTP to path ./var/massimporterpro/price_updater/ OR via form using ‘Upload File’ button.

Step 1: Select CSV file to import

2. Configuring Settings: You can configure the Price Settings from ‘Price Settings’ tab. If not configured the settings will be taken from System > Configuration.

Step 2: Configure Import Settings

3. Hit ‘Run Import’ button After submitting the form, you will see the message mentioning how many rows were imported, how many rows were skipped etc.

Result Message After Import

To view more information about the import you can go to ‘Import History’ tab and can view the log data after clicking on the ‘View Log’ link, which will give you the data used during import operation and result of success, failure or skipped.

Import History Tab

Import Log Data in readable form

That’s all about installation, configuration & importing regarding Mass Importer Pro: Price Importer extension. Once you have used the import operation you will find it to be one of the fastest of its type (as it imports/updates thousands of product prices within few seconds). This is not just a claim on my part, the plugin has proven itself.